Enthusiastically greeted by the music press — the NME called it " a Great Pop Record ... bigger, bolder, narkier and funnier Modern Life is Rubbish "— Parklife is regarded as one of Britpop's defining records.

Partly due to increasing antagonisms between the groups, Blur and Oasis ultimately decided to release their new singles on the same day, an event the NME called " The British Heavyweight Championship ".

While Q called it " a dense, fascinating, idiosyncratic and accomplished art rock album ", the NME felt it was inconsistent and "( at least ) a quarter-of-an-hour too long ".

The band's new sound was met with poor reviews, NME called it " confused and lacking in cohesion ".

NME magazine's Paul Du Noyer called the album " colossally smug and cosmically dull ; an interminable, vacuous and drearily egotistical stab at spirituality: Into the muzak.

Partly due to increasing antagonisms between the groups, Blur and Oasis ultimately decided to release their new singles on the same day, an event the NME called " The British Heavyweight Championship ".

NME called the album " a personal but secretive thrash-pop opera of urban nihilism and passionate dumbthinks ", and Rolling Stone said the album " may be the most potent blast of female insurgency ever committed to tape ".

The NME still covered the Indie scene and was involved with a war of words with a new band called Manic Street Preachers who were criticising the NME for what they saw as an elitist view of bands they would champion.

In October 2006 NME launched an Irish version of the magazine called NME Ireland.

The magazine special editions were called NME Originals, with some featuring articles from other music titles owned by IPC, including Melody Maker, Rave and Uncut magazines.

The NME called them, " 1984's most instantly kitsch mass program of monosodium glutamation of the brain ".

Critical reaction to the album was mixed ; British music magazine NME called the record " another joyfully old-fashioned rock ' n ' roll album immersed in the classics ," while the American review site Pitchfork Media posted a totally anomalous review containing only a video clip of a chimpanzee urinating in its own mouth.

" NME called it an " alt-alt-country, hacked-up acoustic guitar over knife-sharp beats.

13 Unlucky Numbers included the single " California ," whose music video was later called " infamous " by NME and has been included on Artforum's website.

Having headlined the NME Stage at The Glastonbury Festival in 1992, the band spent the next couple of years on a worldwide tour, releasing a mop-up compilation of older non-album material and two new tracks called " 0. 522 " in 1994 before decamping to Wales to record their final album, Brainbloodvolume.

The NME called it a " genuine classic ," noting the variety of sounds present in the album.

NME called it " one of the most ludicrous records you'll ever hear ", though their review was favourable.

One NME reviewer called the album " floridly impersonal and " grandiosely arranged ", but also criticized Wainwright for being " too overwrought and naff ".

Julian Marshall of the NME called it " a humanising, comprehensive and often heartbreaking document of a man who, in five years, changed the face of music, almost by accident.

The nights were called " Nautical " and were featured in the Guardian newspaper and named NME club of the week for the 1 September 2006 show, which featured British Sea Power and the Tiny Dancers.

The NME gave the album 8 / 10 and said: “ A soulful romantic album that sees Razorlight comfortably leap the ‘ difficult second album ’ trap ,” The Observer Music Monthly gave it 4 / 5 saying “ His band ’ s second album justifies the self-belief .” Q Magazine called it “ The best guitar album since Oasis ’ s ‘ Definitely Maybe ’.”

In 2005 NME called the band " music to flunk rehab to ", and Rolling Stone and MTV named them as one of its top 10 bands to watch.

After reading an NME review of the Sex Pistols ' first performance, Shelley and Devoto travelled to London together to see the Sex Pistols in February 1976.

The NME described PiL as " arguably the first post-rock group ".

Adding to the irony of this review, in the 1960 NME Reader's Poll, Duane Eddy was the winner of the award for Number One World Musical Personality, taking first place ahead of consistent winner, Elvis Presley.

The NME gave the Sex Pistols their first music press coverage in a live review of their performance at the Marquee in February that year, but overall they were slow to cover this new phenomenon in comparison to Sounds and Melody Maker, where Jonh Ingham and Caroline Coon respectively were early champions of punk.

The NME took to Grunge very slowly (" Sounds " was the first British music paper to write about grunge with John Robb being the first person to interview Nirvana.

Dublin-based band Humanzi were the first to appear on the cover of NME Ireland.

The following month, NME launched its first iPad app, dedicated to Jack White.

John Mulvey of the NME, the journalist who first wrote about Suede was at the ULU gig.

The first stirrings of recognition came when indie writer Steve Lamacq referred to Ride in a review for the NME as " The House of Love with chainsaws ".

Giant Steps placed second to Debut by Björk in the 1993 NME album of the year list, voted by the paper's contributors, although it came in first place in the subsequent NME readers ' poll.

The latter gig saw them receive their first reviews in both NME and Sounds.

The first ever gig in Apeldoorn, Holland was reviewed in UK music paper, NME and the second gig at the Paradiso Club, Amsterdam was recorded for Dutch radio.

In his first collection, Penman pulls together pieces from the back files of NME, as well as The Face, The Sunday Times, Ikon, The Wire and Sight and Sound.

In May 1974, the British music magazine, NME reported that Cockney Rebel were to undertake their first British tour, with the highlight of the itinerary being a gig at London's Victoria Palace Theatre on 23 June.

In March 1969, the British music magazine, NME reported that Motown Records vice-president Barney Ales had visited London to sign the Pretty Things as the U. S. label's first British act.

On the week the single came out, The Libertines featured on the cover of the NME for the first time.

Justin Hawkins revealed in interview for NME. com that the first single would be " Every Inch Of You " and the album would be hopefully released in June or July 2012.

The NME Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine, NME ( New Musical Express ). The first awards show was held in 1953 as the NME Poll Winners Concerts, shortly after the founding of the magazine.

The band's second EP, James II, was released over a year after the first and accompanied by a feature on the cover of the NME, Gilbertson having been replaced by the band's guitar tutor Larry Gott.

McGee was awarded by the NME ' Godlike Genius ' award in February 1995 ( John Peel won it the first year in 1994 ) and Creation Records was awarded " independent label of the year " every year between 1995 and 1998 by Music Week.

One song from the sessions, " Leave Home ", was first released in late 1994 on the duo's mix album, NME Xmas Dust Up, released as a covermount cassette tape in an issue of the NME.